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No one will ever make necessity not happen.

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The man has a theory. The woman has hipbones. Here comes Death.
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Death Man Theory Woman
To live past the end of your myth is a perilous thing.
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Anand Thakur
Under the seams runs the pain.
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Anand Thakur
He stood against the wind and let it peel him clean.
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Cleaning Himself Wind
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
It takes practice to shave the skin off the light.
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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
No need to fear death. There will be a tunnel and light.
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Anand Thakur
When an ecstatic is asked the question, What is it that love dares the self to do? she will answer: Love dares the self to leave itself behind, to enter into poverty.
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Anand Thakur
Love is a good place to situate our distrust of fake women.
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Anand Thakur
Existence will not stop until it gets to beauty.
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Anand Thakur
Up against another human being one’s own procedures take on definition.
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Anand Thakur
Philosophy – hopeless. Yet it gives me hope.
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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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Anand Thakur
One of the principle qualities of pain is that it demands an explanation.
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Demand Explanation Pain Principle Quality
When I desire you a part of me is gone.
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Anand Thakur

No one will ever make necessity not happen.

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