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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

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
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
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
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
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand 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
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Kind Mouth Myself Open Thinking Word
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Love Myself Relationship Yourself
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man

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