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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.

Samuel Beckett

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!
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Moments Place Time
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
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
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
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
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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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
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
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
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
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

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.

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