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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

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
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
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Forget Myself Time
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
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
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
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
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Death Forget Man
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Love Myself Relationship Yourself
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
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
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record

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