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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

Samuel Beckett

Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
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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End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
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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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Home Myself Rain Window Writing
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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Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Head Myself Universe Window
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner

Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

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