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Better hope deferred than none.

Samuel Beckett

Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
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 dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
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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Destruction Escape Important Past Place
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
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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End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Intelligence Mindset Myself Right Wonder

Better hope deferred than none.

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