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“I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”
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“What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”
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“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”
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“You must go on. I can’t go on. You’ll go on.”
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“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
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“All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead.”
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“Words are all we have.”
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“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them”
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“Things are as they are, and in whatever way they are, they are from before my time.”
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“Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now.”
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“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.” QUOTE ABOUT WATERFALLS
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“I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.”
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“I can’t help it, I must go on, I must go on, that’s what I’ll say, I can’t help it.”
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“You’re on earth, there’s no cure for that.”
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“The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”
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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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“I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.”
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“Perhaps nothing is more tragic than a person gifted with reason and yet plagued by madness.”
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“Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”
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“I don’t understand. I can’t understand. But I must understand.”
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“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”