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What are we doing here, that is the question.

Samuel Beckett

You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself
I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Give Up Myself
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Hide Hunt Myself Wait
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

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
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Desert Lonely Love Man
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Answer Life Long Question
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
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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