I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTFor 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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