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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.

Samuel Beckett

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.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
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.
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Born Death Live Myself
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
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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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
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.
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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
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
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Forget Myself Time
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Cry Dead Greatness Growth Habit Old Time
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Time Try
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
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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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
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
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Blind Eyes Fools See
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner

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