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The essential doesn’t change.

Samuel Beckett

What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Death Forget Man
We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Born Crazy Remain
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
Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dance Natural Order Thinking
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Beginning End Philosophy Wisdom
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Moments Place Time
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
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.
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Fear Invention Myself Question
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
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance

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