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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.

Samuel Beckett

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
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Born Crazy Remain
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
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
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
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
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
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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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
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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Head Myself Universe Window
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
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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Fear Invention Myself Question

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