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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.

Anne Carson

Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Lava bread makes you passionate.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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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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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.
ANNE CARSON

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I’ve come to understand that the best one can hope for as a human is to have a relationship with that emptiness where God would be if God were available, but God isn’t.
ANNE CARSON

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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.
ANNE CARSON

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We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
ANNE CARSON

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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
ANNE CARSON

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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
ANNE CARSON

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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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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
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

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Desire is no light thing.
ANNE CARSON

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It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
ANNE CARSON

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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Everything depends on liking the people and trusting the people. You have to assume that whatever they do will be as good as you want the thing to be and just go ahead with that.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.

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