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 dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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