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Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

Anne Carson

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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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Desire is no light thing.
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You can never know enough, never work enough, never use the infinitives and participles oddly enough, never impede the movement harshly enough, never leave the mind quickly enough.
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My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Anand Thakur
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.
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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
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
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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Anand Thakur

Why does tragedy exist? Because you are full of rage. Why are you full of rage? Because you are full of grief.

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