If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I gave up before birth.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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