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.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere 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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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I gave up before birth.
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