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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.

Samuel Beckett

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
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
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Alcohol Grudge Whiskey
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
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.
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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
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
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.
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Friendship Human Solitude
Nothing is more real than nothing.
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One Liner Reality
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
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun

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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