We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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