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 BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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 have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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I gave up before birth.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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