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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Samuel Beckett

Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Conversation Myself Polite Try
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Forget Myself Time
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
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
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
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
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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Home Myself Rain Window Writing
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective

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