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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Samuel Beckett

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Fear Invention Myself Question
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
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 day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
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
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
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
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
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
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
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself

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