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.
SAMUEL BECKETTDear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Do we mean love, when we say 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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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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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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