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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

Samuel Beckett

Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Dance Natural Order Thinking
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Death Enjoyment Myself
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Friendship Human Solitude
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 could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Action Life Question Spiritual
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
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
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
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
Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Choice Hope
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Discrimination Poetry Prayer
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Death Forget Man

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