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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

Samuel Beckett

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

Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Blind Eyes Fools See
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Home Myself Rain Window Writing
Better hope deferred than none.
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Better Choice Hope
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. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Moments Place Time
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Destruction Escape Important Past Place
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Current Death Stand Yourself

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