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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

Anne Carson

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
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
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Anand Thakur
Could you visit me in dreams? That would cheer me. Sweet to see friends in the night, however short the time.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophers say man forms himself in dialogue.
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Anand Thakur
Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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
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
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur
You used to say. “Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.” Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
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Desire Double Gold Love Madness Marriage Rule
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
It is easier to tell a story of how people wound one another than of what binds them together.
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Anand Thakur
We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. … We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.
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Anand Thakur
It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
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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Anand Thakur

Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.

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