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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

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
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
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
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
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
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
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
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
All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Connection Existence Kind Man Spiritual
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
Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
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
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
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Time Try

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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