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

Samuel Beckett

Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Blind Eyes Fools See
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!
SAMUEL BECKETT

Moments Place Time
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Art Clarity Clear
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Charity Defense
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
Fail, fail again, fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Failure Inspirational Motivational One Liner Success
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Nothing is more real than nothing.
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One Liner Reality
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself

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