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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

Samuel Beckett

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
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.
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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
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
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Time Try
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
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
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
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
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Motivational One Liner Success
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
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
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
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.
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Born Death Live Myself
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Cry Dead Greatness Growth Habit Old Time
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
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

Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

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