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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Samuel Beckett

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
Birth was the death of him.
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Born Death Deep Himself One Liner
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Blind Eyes Fools See
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Fear Invention Myself Question
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Head Myself Universe Window
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Art Clarity Clear
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective

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