There’s never an end for the sea.
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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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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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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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