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To restore silence is the role of objects.

Samuel Beckett

There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
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
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 whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
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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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Conversation Myself Polite Try
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer

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