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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

Anne Carson

Sometimes I dream a sentence and write it down. It’s usually nonsense, but sometimes it seems a key to another world.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
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

Anand Thakur
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
ANNE CARSON

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

Anand Thakur
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSON

Necessary Need

No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.

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