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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

Anne Carson

Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
What makes life life and not a simple story? Jagged bits moving never still, all along the wall.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Anand Thakur
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Anand Thakur
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Anand Thakur
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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Anand Thakur
We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur

You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

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You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.

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