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What are we doing here, that is the question.

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.
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End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
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
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
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
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
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
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
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
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
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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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
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

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