Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Anand Thakur
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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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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He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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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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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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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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