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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Conversation Myself Polite Try
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
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
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Blind Eyes Fools See
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
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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End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word

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