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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

Samuel Beckett

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

End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Object Restore Role Silence
Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
Birth was the death of him.
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Born Death Deep Himself One Liner
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Change Mistake Myself
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Destiny Fate Man Myself
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Death Forget Man
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Friendship Human Solitude
Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Art Clarity Clear
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Change Myself Transformation
Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETT

End Thankful Yourself
I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Give Up Myself
Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETT

One Liner Reality
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Habit Life Perspective
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Head Myself Universe Window

If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.

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