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.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf 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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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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