Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
SAMUEL BECKETTIt was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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