I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat are we doing here, that is the question.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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I gave up before birth.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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