Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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Anand Thakur
Time isn’t made of anything. It is an abstraction. Just a meaning that we impose upon motion.
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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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They were two superior eels at the bottom of the tank and they recognized each other like italics.
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I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Under the seams runs the pain.
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No one will ever make necessity not happen.
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Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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There is no person without a world.
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Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Poetry – poiesis means a thing made.
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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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All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
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