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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.

Samuel Beckett

What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Blind Eyes Fools See
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
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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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
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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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
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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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.

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