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

Samuel Beckett

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
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
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
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
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Art Clarity Clear
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
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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Intelligence Mindset Myself Right Wonder
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence

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