It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being acutely aware of the confusion.

The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.

It is not as though I wanted to write them. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot.

I think the next little bit of excitement is ﬂying.

Said about Waiting for Godot, from Jonathan Croall, The Coming of Godot (2005) ISBN 5-6, p.As quoted in The Essential Samuel Beckett: An Illustrated Biography, by Enoch Brater (revised edition, 2003) ISBN 1-3, p.If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.'Pues el delito mayor / Del hombre es haber nacido.'' from his essay Proust, quoting Pedro Calderón de la Barca's La vida es sueño (Life is a Dream). Comparable to 'The tragic figure represents the expiation of original sin, of the original and eternal sin of him and all his 'soci malorum,' the sin of having been born.As quoted in 'Samuel Beckett Talks About Beckett' by John Gruen, in Vogue, (December 1969), p.Spend the years of learning squandering.

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