Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords 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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Birth was the death of him.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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