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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

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Failure Inspirational Time Try
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
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
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
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 life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Head Myself Universe Window
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
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
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
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
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Conversation Myself Polite Try

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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