All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETTBetter hope deferred than none.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say 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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Birth was the death of him.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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