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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

Samuel Beckett

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
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
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Cry Dead Greatness Growth Habit Old Time
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
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’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Home Myself Rain Window Writing
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
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
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
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
Better hope deferred than none.
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Better Choice Hope

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