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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.

Samuel Beckett

Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Art Clarity Clear
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Time Try
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
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
Memories 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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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
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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Death Enjoyment Myself
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
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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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
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
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
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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Born Death Live Myself
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual

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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