The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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