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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

Samuel Beckett

All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Day Death Normal Short Yourself
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Cure Earth One Liner
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Thankful Yourself
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Dog Habit Himself
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Choice Hope
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Clothes Thinking Word
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Desert Lonely Love Man

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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