All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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.
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I gave up before birth.
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My mistakes are my life.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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