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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

Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dog Habit Himself
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Humanity Intelligence Philosophy Poet
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
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
For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
Nothing is more real than nothing.
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One Liner Reality
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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End Thankful Yourself
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 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
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Death Forget Man
Birth was the death of him.
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Born Death Deep Himself One Liner
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
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself

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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