Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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