Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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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I am kind of a curmudgeonly person, so I don’t gravitate to groups or traditions, which is probably just pretentious of me.
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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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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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Under the seams runs the pain.
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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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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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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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There is no person without a world.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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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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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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Myths are stories about people who become too big for their lives temporarily, so that they crash into other lives or brush against gods. In crisis their souls are visible.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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