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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.

Samuel Beckett

I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
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?
SAMUEL BECKETT

Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Deep Necessary Silence Word
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Home Myself Rain Window Writing
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Greatness Machine Ourselves Time
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETT

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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
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
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice 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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Death Enjoyment Myself
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Change Myself Transformation

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