Samuel Beckett
Playwright, Novelist
"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
Negation quotes
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"Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned."
"The only "definitive truth" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth."
"Consensus is the negation of leadership."
"I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity."
"But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation."
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