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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.

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.
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Destruction Escape Important Past Place
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man 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
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
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
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
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
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
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

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