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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.

Samuel Beckett

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Alone Darkness Feeling Myself
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
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 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
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
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
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
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
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Death Forget Man
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Kind Mouth Myself Open Thinking Word
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
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
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner

To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.

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