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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear

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
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Animal Blood Ignorance People Reality
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
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
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
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time

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