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Desire is no light thing.

Anne Carson

We’re talking about the struggle to drag a thought over from the mush of the unconscious into some kind of grammar, syntax, human sense; every attempt means starting over with language. Starting over with accuracy.
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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
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Meanwhile music pounded / across hearts opening every valve to the desperate drama of being / a self in a song.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
You doubt God? Well more to the point I credit God with the good sense to doubt me. What is mortality after all but divine doubt flashing over us? For an instant God suspends assent and poof! we disappear.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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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
They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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Desire is no light thing.

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