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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.

Samuel Beckett

Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
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
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
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
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat 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
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
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
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
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
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Born Crazy Remain
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word

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