Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTLove, 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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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I gave up before birth.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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