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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me,…
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same…
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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…
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Languages are dying at an unprecedented rate. A language dies every 14 days.
— Patricia Ryan
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She is convinced that when language dies, out of carelessness, disuse, indifference and absence of esteem, or killed by fiat, not only…
— Toni Morrison
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If a symbolic language dies, it tortures us like a nightmare, like a thousand piece orchestra grating on our nerves and tearing…
— Asger Jorn
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when a language dies, a way of understanding the world dies with it, a way of looking at the world.
— George Steiner
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were…
— Samuel Beckett
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Every two weeks, a language dies. The world is diminished when it loses its human sayings, just as when it loses its…
— Eduardo Galeano
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