All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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He 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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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