People are bloody ignorant apes.
SAMUEL BECKETTMemories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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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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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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