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 BECKETT
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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 funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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