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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.

Samuel Beckett

Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Forget Myself Time
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Fear Invention Myself Question
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Change Myself Transformation
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Deep Necessary Silence Word
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Blind Eyes Fools See
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Day Death Normal Short Yourself
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Desert Lonely Love Man
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Artist Mess Task Work
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
People are bloody ignorant apes.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Animal Blood Ignorance People Reality
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
SAMUEL BECKETT

Happiness Unknown
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
SAMUEL BECKETT

Art Clarity Clear
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Head Myself Universe Window
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Crazy Remain

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