To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETTWe have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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 pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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