That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

Samuel Beckett

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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
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
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
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Deep Necessary Silence Word
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
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
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
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
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Change Myself Transformation
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
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
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
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
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Animal Blood Ignorance People Reality
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
Better hope deferred than none.
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Better Choice Hope
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun

That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.

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