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Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

Anne Carson

He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
ANNE CARSON

Himself Known Oneself Try
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.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
The words we read and words we write never say exactly what we mean. The people we love are never just as we desire them. The two symbols never perfectly match. Eros is in between.
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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
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
Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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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.
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Power Word Yourself
No one will ever make necessity not happen.
ANNE CARSON

Necessary Need
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
ANNE CARSON

Cleaning Himself Wind
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSON

Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur

Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.

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