Desire is no light thing.
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Anand Thakur
Desire is no light thing.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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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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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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