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There�s my life, why not, it is one, if you like, if you must, I don�t say no, this evening. There has to be one, it seems, once there is speech, no need of a story, a story is not compulsory, just a life, that�s the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
Stories and Texts for Nothing
Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.
Molloy
There is no escape from the hours and the days. Neither from tomorrow nor from yesterday, because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us... We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
Proust
Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
Proust
And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.
Molloy
It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
The Unnamable
It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to want, then life begins to ram her fish and chips down your gullet until you puke, and then the puke down your gullet until you puke the puke, and then the puked puke until you begin to like it.
Watt
Let us not waste our time in idle discourse! Let us do something, while we have the chance! It is not every day that we are needed�.To all mankind they were addressed, those cries for help still ringing in our ears! But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
Waiting for Godot
Live and invent. I have tried. I must have tried. Invent. It is not the word. Neither is to live. No matter. I have tried. (...) I say living without knowing what it is. I tried to live without knowing what I was trying. Perhaps I have lived afterall, without knowing.
Malone Dies
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