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“(He looks again at Estragon.) At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said?”

“Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be?”

“They give birth astride of the grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.”

“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 like any other day, one day he went dumb, one day I went blind, one day we’ll go deaf, one day we were born, one day we shall die, the same day, the same second, is that not enough for you?”

“We all are born mad. Some remain so.”

“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 the laugh. [He laughs.] Let us not then speak ill of our generation, it is not any unhappier than its predecessors. [Pause.] Let us not speak well of it either. [Pause.] Let us not speak of it at all. [Pause. Judiciously.] It is true the population has increased.”

“ "Use your intelligence, can’t you?"
[VLADIMIR uses his intelligence.]
[Finally.] "I remain in the dark." ”

“ "You should have been a poet."
"I was." [Gesture towards his rags.] "Isn’t that obvious." ”

“There’s man all over for you, blaming on his boots the faults of his feet.”

starting this on the first day of ramadan was crazy work !!