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353462b	Let there then be light, it will not necessarily be disastrous. Or let there be none, we'll manage without it. But these lights, in the plural, which rear aloft, swell, sweep down and go out hissing, reminding one of the naja, perhaps the moment has come to throw them into the balance and have done with this tedious equipoise, at last.	Samuel Beckett
13dcdaf	How difficult it is to speak of the moon and not lose one's head, the witless moon.	Samuel Beckett
a635d9a	At last I began to think, that is to say to listen harder.	Samuel Beckett
2e40755	Delicious instants, before one's eyes get used to the dark.	Samuel Beckett
7d4e2cb	Are you capable of following me? He did not answer. But I seized his thoughts as clearly as if he had spoken them, namely, And you, are you capable of leading me?	Samuel Beckett
40e7b66	Press and gloom make recognition difficult. Man and wife are strangers two paces apart to mention only this most intimate of all bonds. Let them move on till they are close enough to touch and then without pausing on their way exchange a look. If they recognize each other it does not appear. Whatever it is they are searching for it is not that.	Samuel Beckett
4063772	I feel the old dark gathering, the solitude preparing, by which I know myself, and the call of that ignorance which might be noble and is mere poltroonery.	Samuel Beckett
45ae755	The inspection once completed it is usual to put everything carefully back in place as far as possible. It is enjoined by a certain ethics not to do unto others what coming from them might give offence.	Samuel Beckett
e475802	In a word there seems to be the light of the outer world, of those who know the sun and moon emerge at such an hour and such another plunge again below the surface, and who rely on this, and who know that clouds are always to be expected but sooner or later always pass away, and mine. But mine too has its alterations, I will not deny it, its dusks and dawns, but that is what I say, for I too must have lived, once, out there, and there is no..	Samuel Beckett
66a1461	Did they intrude on me here? No, no one has ever intruded on me here. Elsewhere then.	Samuel Beckett
57d709b	Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. The horror-worn eyes linger abject on all they have beseeched so long, in a last prayer, the true prayer at last, the one that asks for nothing.	Samuel Beckett
333ce64	After all this window is whatever I want it to be, up to a point, that's right, don't compromise yourself. What strikes me to begin with is how much rounder it is than it was, so that it looks like a bull's-eye, or a porthole. No matter, provided there is something on the other side.	Samuel Beckett
4535fe0	But the passenger, having named the place he wants to go and knowing himself as helpless to act on the course of events as the dark box that encloses him, abandons himself to the pleasant feeling of being freed from all responsibility, or he ponders on what lies before him, or on what lies behind him, saying, Twill not be ever thus, and then in the same breath, But twas ever thus, for there are not five hundred different kinds of passengers..	Samuel Beckett
41b1658	The fear of falling is the source of many a folly. It is a disaster. I suppose the wisest thing now is to live it over again, meditate upon it and be edified. It is thus that man distinguishes himself from the ape and rises, from discovery to discovery, towards the light.	Samuel Beckett
cac5c6f	The only sin is the sin of being born.	Samuel Beckett
6745a8c	If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.	Samuel Beckett
a52d1dd	It means what it says.	Samuel Beckett
c5eda13	I grow gnomic. It is the last phase.	Samuel Beckett
3ea7ffd	Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.	Samuel Beckett
b42dce8	God is a witness that cannot be sworn.	Samuel Beckett
8655587	They were most correct, according to their god.	Samuel Beckett
4bb0b77	Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?	Samuel Beckett
7cc3d39	All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing.	Samuel Beckett
f01a108	To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.	Samuel Beckett
f857ef1	It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.	Samuel Beckett
f98e96c	Do you ever think? The voice, God forbid.	Samuel Beckett
88df129	Don't wait to be hunted to hide, that's always been my motto.	Samuel Beckett
57a4018	But is it true love, in the rectum? That's what bothers me sometimes.	Samuel Beckett
c4fc91e	To restore silence is the role of objects.	Samuel Beckett
e228af9	There is something ... more important in life than punctuality, and that is decorum.	Samuel Beckett
ae3f010	To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.	Samuel Beckett
7484907	Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was, but that I was, forgot to be.	Samuel Beckett
907236a	What do you expect, one is what one is, partly at least.	Samuel Beckett
4fcdd60	Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.	Samuel Beckett
59030e4	Tears and laughter, they are so much Gaelic to me.	Samuel Beckett
e6a5ac7	Nothing is more real than nothing.	Samuel Beckett
b94874d	The loss of consciousness for me was never any great loss.	Samuel Beckett
f1beff7	Deplorable mania, when something happens, to inquire what.	Samuel Beckett
b2a3509	Tears, that could be the tone, if they weren't so easy, the true tone and tenor at last.	Samuel Beckett
fd2cf95	Hamm: Can there be misery (he yawns) loftier than mine?	Samuel Beckett
929c2a9	Hamm: Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!	Samuel Beckett
e68f6a9	Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.	Samuel Beckett
e61d8a3	No way in, go in, measure.	Samuel Beckett

353462b

Let there then be light, it will not necessarily be disastrous. Or let there be none, we'll manage without it. But these lights, in the plural, which rear aloft, swell, sweep down and go out hissing, reminding one of the naja, perhaps the moment has come to throw them into the balance and have done with this tedious equipoise, at last.

Samuel Beckett

13dcdaf

How difficult it is to speak of the moon and not lose one's head, the witless moon.

Samuel Beckett

a635d9a

At last I began to think, that is to say to listen harder.

Samuel Beckett

2e40755

Delicious instants, before one's eyes get used to the dark.

Samuel Beckett

7d4e2cb

Are you capable of following me? He did not answer. But I seized his thoughts as clearly as if he had spoken them, namely, And you, are you capable of leading me?

Samuel Beckett

40e7b66

Press and gloom make recognition difficult. Man and wife are strangers two paces apart to mention only this most intimate of all bonds. Let them move on till they are close enough to touch and then without pausing on their way exchange a look. If they recognize each other it does not appear. Whatever it is they are searching for it is not that.

Samuel Beckett

4063772

I feel the old dark gathering, the solitude preparing, by which I know myself, and the call of that ignorance which might be noble and is mere poltroonery.

Samuel Beckett

45ae755

The inspection once completed it is usual to put everything carefully back in place as far as possible. It is enjoined by a certain ethics not to do unto others what coming from them might give offence.

Samuel Beckett

e475802

In a word there seems to be the light of the outer world, of those who know the sun and moon emerge at such an hour and such another plunge again below the surface, and who rely on this, and who know that clouds are always to be expected but sooner or later always pass away, and mine. But mine too has its alterations, I will not deny it, its dusks and dawns, but that is what I say, for I too must have lived, once, out there, and there is no..

Samuel Beckett

66a1461

Did they intrude on me here? No, no one has ever intruded on me here. Elsewhere then.

Samuel Beckett

57d709b

Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything. The horror-worn eyes linger abject on all they have beseeched so long, in a last prayer, the true prayer at last, the one that asks for nothing.

Samuel Beckett

333ce64

After all this window is whatever I want it to be, up to a point, that's right, don't compromise yourself. What strikes me to begin with is how much rounder it is than it was, so that it looks like a bull's-eye, or a porthole. No matter, provided there is something on the other side.

Samuel Beckett

4535fe0

But the passenger, having named the place he wants to go and knowing himself as helpless to act on the course of events as the dark box that encloses him, abandons himself to the pleasant feeling of being freed from all responsibility, or he ponders on what lies before him, or on what lies behind him, saying, Twill not be ever thus, and then in the same breath, But twas ever thus, for there are not five hundred different kinds of passengers..

Samuel Beckett

41b1658

The fear of falling is the source of many a folly. It is a disaster. I suppose the wisest thing now is to live it over again, meditate upon it and be edified. It is thus that man distinguishes himself from the ape and rises, from discovery to discovery, towards the light.