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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.

Samuel Beckett

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Blind Eyes Fools See
Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Deep Listening Meaning Silence Wisdom Word
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
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
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
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
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
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
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
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
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Nothing is more real than nothing.
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One Liner Reality
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
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 are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
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
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
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
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
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
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
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

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