"It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger."
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"In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness."
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"Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful."
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"Imagination at wit's end spreads its sad wings."
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"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
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"All mankind is us, whether we like it or not."
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"The pendulum oscillates between these two terms: Suffering-that opens a window on the real and is the main condition of the artistic experience, and Boredom ... that must be considered as the most tolerable because the most durable of human evils."
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"The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on."
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"The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh."
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"What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come"
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"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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"We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench"
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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."
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"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"
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"Estragon: What about hanging ourselves? Vladimir: Hmm. It'd give us an erection."
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"We are all born crazy. Some remain that way."
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"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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"Fail, fail again, fail better."
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"Do you always believe in the life to come? Mine was always that."
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"There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle."
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