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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.

Samuel Beckett

Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
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.
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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
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
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom 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
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Forget Myself Time
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
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
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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Death Enjoyment Myself
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking

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