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

Anne Carson

We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.
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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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I don’t read reviews and I don’t know what to do with opinions, so I just lose them. They take up space, they become a process of manufacturing a persona, which I want to avoid.
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Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Each night about this time he puts on sadness like a garment and goes on writing.
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It is for God to fix the time who knows no time.
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Do you remember when they taught cursive in schools? I think they don’t anymore. But I still enjoy it – just the physical act and all the – the whole business of making a thing out of language.
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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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You can get used to eating breakfast with a man in a fedora. You can get used to anything, my mother was in the habit of saying.
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One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness.
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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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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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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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There is no person without a world.
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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.
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.

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