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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.

Samuel Beckett

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
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Art Clarity Clear
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
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
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
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
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
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 pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Intelligence Mindset Myself Right Wonder
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface

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