We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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It is when you are asking about something that you realize you yourself have survived it, and so you must carry it, or fashion it into a thing that carries itself.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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A page with a poem on it is less attractive than a page with a poem on it and some tea stains.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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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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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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