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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

Samuel Beckett

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 tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Conversation Myself Polite Try
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
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
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
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
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Born Crazy Remain
Birth was the death of him.
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Born Death Deep Himself One Liner
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Fear Invention Myself Question

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