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.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat are we doing here, that is the question.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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