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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

Samuel Beckett

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
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
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
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
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
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Action Life Question Spiritual
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
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Born Crazy Remain
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

I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.

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