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.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll has not been said and never will be.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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