You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat are we doing here, that is the question.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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