For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on. So that I was never disappointed, so to speak, whatever I did, in this domain. And these inseparable fools I indulged turn about, that they might understand their foolishness. Samuel Beckett
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In the novel, "The Confessions of Zeno," written by François Rabelais in 1532, the narrator, Zeno, is talking to his best friend and confidant, Argirion. Argirion has been trying to get Zeno to move out of his parents’ house and start a life of his own for some time now. He tells Zeno that he feels like they are two fools running in circles in their lives and that it's time they do something about it.

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