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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Samuel Beckett

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
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Moments Place Time
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
Better hope deferred than none.
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Better Choice Hope
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
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
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
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

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