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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.

Samuel Beckett

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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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
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
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
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
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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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Cry Dead Greatness Growth Habit Old Time
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
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
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
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
Better hope deferred than none.
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Better Choice Hope
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
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

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