What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot … - Samuel Beckett

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This is what a family is all about - one another, sitting around the table at night. And it's very, very important, I think, for the kid to spend time not only around the table eating with their parents, but in the kitchen.

Samuel Beckett

What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.

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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.

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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.

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That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.

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Perhaps that's what I feel, an outside and an inside and me in the middle, perhaps that's what I am, the thing that divides the world in two, on the one side the outside, on the other the inside, that can be as thin as foil, I'm neither one side nor the other, I'm in the middle, I'm the partition, I've two surfaces and no thickness, perhaps that's what I feel, myself vibrating, I'm the tympanum, on the one hand the mind, on the other the world, I don't belong to either.

Hands, Partition, Self, Side, Two, World

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