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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

Anne Carson

You remember too much,” my mother said to me recently. “Why hold onto all that?” And I said, “where can I put it down?
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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Anand Thakur
Words bounce. Words, if you let them, will do what they want to do and what they have to do.
ANNE CARSON

Power Word Yourself
Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur
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
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur

Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.

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