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My mistakes are my life.

Samuel Beckett

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
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
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Head Myself Universe Window
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Fear Invention Myself Question
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Death Forget Man
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
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
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
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner

My mistakes are my life.

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