Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETTHe 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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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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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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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