We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETTThen 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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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I gave up before birth.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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