The essential doesn’t change.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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