What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETTWith all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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