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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.

Samuel Beckett

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
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
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
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
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
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
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 find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
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
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner

To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.

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