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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Samuel Beckett

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
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Born Crazy Remain
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
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
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
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
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Animal Blood Ignorance People Reality
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Forget Myself Time
I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Kind Mouth Myself Open Thinking Word
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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Destruction Escape Important Past Place
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
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

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