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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Destruction Escape Important Past Place
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!
SAMUEL BECKETT

Moments Place Time
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
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
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
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
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
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
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 have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake 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
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner

If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.

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