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Better hope deferred than none.

Samuel Beckett

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Forget Myself Time
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
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
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
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
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Intelligence Mindset Myself Right Wonder
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
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
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World

Better hope deferred than none.

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