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Anne Carson

Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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Anand Thakur
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
I mean, every thought starts over, so every expression of a thought has to do the same. every accuracy has to be invented… I feel I am blundering in concepts too fine for me.
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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.
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Anand Thakur
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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Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
A man moves through time. It means nothing except that, like a harpoon, once thrown he will arrive.
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Arrival Man Move Time Willing
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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Anand Thakur
There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
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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Angry Existence Grief Tragedy Yourself
I am a drop of gold he would say I am molten matter returned from the core of earth to tell you interior things.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur

It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.

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