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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

Samuel Beckett

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
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
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!
SAMUEL BECKETT

Moments Place Time
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
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
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
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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Kind Mouth Myself Open Thinking Word
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
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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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record

There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.

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