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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.

Anne Carson

Here we go mother on the shipless ocean. Pity us, pity the ocean, here we go.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Homer must have felt this pressure to come up with an epic poem that would sound totally new to an audience that had loved his previous best-seller.
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Anand Thakur
Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you’ve made something, it’ll – the world will be different.
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Anand Thakur
What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop burning.
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Accident Body Burn Fear Language
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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Caught between the tongue and the taste.
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There is no person without a world.
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Anand Thakur
I never really got over the fun of making letters.
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Life pulls softly inside your bindings. The pod glows – dear stench.
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No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Comfortable means gradually more and more flattened down, more and more blunt – less and less sharp and biting into you.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
ANNE CARSON

Anand Thakur
The self forms at the edge of desire, and a science of self arises in the effort to leave that self behind.
ANNE CARSON

Behind Desire Edge Effort Form Leaving
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
ANNE CARSON

Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run

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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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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