With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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 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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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Birth was the death of him.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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