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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

Anne Carson

Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Dare Leaving Love Poverty
My religion makes no sense and does not help me therefore I pursue it.
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Help Myself Pursue Religion
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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We humans seem disastrously in love with this thing (whatever it is) that glitters on the earth– we call it life.
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Anand Thakur
If your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence.
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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
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
The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
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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Anand Thakur
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur
A refugee population is hungry for language and aware that anything can happen.
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Anand Thakur
Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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Anand Thakur
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
Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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Anand Thakur

One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.

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