Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETTThe creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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