Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETTFor 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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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