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I gave up before birth.

Samuel Beckett

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
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
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
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
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 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
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
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.
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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Motivational One Liner Success
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual

I gave up before birth.

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