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Better hope deferred than none.

Samuel Beckett

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
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
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
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
Nothing is more real than nothing.
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One Liner Reality
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
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
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
Better hope deferred than none.
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Better Choice Hope
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
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
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
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

Better hope deferred than none.

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