If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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 hope deferred than none.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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