People are bloody ignorant apes.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat are we doing here, that is the question.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Birth was the death of him.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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I gave up before birth.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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