I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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I gave up before birth.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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