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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Samuel Beckett

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Head Myself Universe Window
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
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
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Death Enjoyment Myself
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation

I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

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