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 BECKETTThe old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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