Life
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However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.
Men of Maize
When you die, there is nothing - only a life that will be forgotten.
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us.
The Sound of the Mountain
Having oscillated all his life between the torments of a superficial loitering and the horrors of disinterested endeavour, he finds himself at last in a situation where to do nothing exclusively would be an act of the highest value, and significance.
Watt
In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.
Waiting for Godot
No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.
Worstward Ho
My life, my life, now I speak of it as of something over, now as of a joke which still goes on, and it is neither, for at the same time it is over and it goes on, and is there any tense for that? Watch wound and buried by the watchmaker, before he died, whose ruined works will one day speak of God, to the worms.
Molloy
How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
Stories and Texts for Nothing
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
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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