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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

Samuel Beckett

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
What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Happiness Unknown
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself
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
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
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
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Nothing is more real than nothing.
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One Liner Reality
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself

But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.

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