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The essential doesn’t change.

Samuel Beckett

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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Home Myself Rain Window Writing
Better hope deferred than none.
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Better Choice Hope
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
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
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
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
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
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
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
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
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
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Time Try

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