If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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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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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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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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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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