I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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 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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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