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.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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