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 BECKETTThe whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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