Better hope deferred than none.
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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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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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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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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