When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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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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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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When I began to be published, people got the idea that I should ‘teach writing,’ which I have no idea how to do and don’t really believe in.
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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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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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All human desire is poised on an axis of paradox, absence and presence its poles, love and hate its motive energies.
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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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Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Give me a world, you have taken the world I was.
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It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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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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