If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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 tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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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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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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