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To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

Anne Carson

Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Reality is a sound, you have to tune in to it not just keep yelling.
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When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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At least half of your mind is always thinking, I’ll be leaving; this won’t last. It’s a good Buddhist attitude. If I were a Buddhist, this would be a great help. As it is, I’m just sad.
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Anand Thakur
Aristotle says that metaphor causes the mind to experience itself in the act of making a mistake.
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Those nights lying alone are not discontinuous with this cold hectic dawn. It is who I am.
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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
We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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Anand Thakur
He was trying to fit this Herakles onto the one he knew.
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Himself Known Oneself Try
To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.
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Arrival Breathe Delight Hope Live Moments Run
Consider incompleteness as a verb.
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Incomplete One Liner Verb
Sometimes a journey makes itself necessary.
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Journey Necessary Time
Simply do something else and return to it later to find the problem wasn’t a problem at all. Ruptures almost always lead to a stronger project.
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Anand Thakur
Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.
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Condition Female Madness Public Voice Witch
He came after Homer and before Gertrude Stein, a difficult interval for a poet.
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Difficult Interval Poet
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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Anand Thakur

To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended moment of living hope.

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