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The essential doesn’t change.

Samuel Beckett

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
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Time Try
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Born Death Live Myself
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
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
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun

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