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- The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of…
- I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
- It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad,…
- The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of…
- And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing.…
- I am interested in the shape of ideas even if I do not believe in them. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine . .…
- How time flies when one has fun!
- Let us do something, while we have the chance! ... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent…
- What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the…
- There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.
- Enough. Sudden enough. Sudden all far. No move and sudden all far. All least. Three pins. One pinhole. In dimmost dim. Vasts apart. At bounds…
- The Unnamable,1954... How all becomes clear and simple when one opens an eye on the within, having of course previously exposed it to the without,…
- 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.
- That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
- But he had hardly felt the absurdity of those things, on the one hand, and the necessity of those others, on the other, (for it…
- The fact would seem to be, if in my situation one may speak of facts, not only that I shall have to speak of things…
- And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing,…
- Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one…
- How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones?
- Have you not done tormenting me with your accursed time! It's abominable! When! When! One day, is that not enough for you, one day he…
- I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do…
- The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,…
- Finished, it's finished, nearly finished, it must be nearly finished. Grain upon grain, one by one, and one day, suddenly, there's a heap, a little…
- HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!
- 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…
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