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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

Samuel Beckett

It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
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
I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Conversation Myself Polite Try
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
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
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
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!
SAMUEL BECKETT

Moments Place Time
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Birth was the death of him.
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Born Death Deep Himself One Liner
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Cry Dead Greatness Growth Habit Old 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.
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Death Enjoyment Myself
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
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
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Discrimination Poetry Prayer

All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

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