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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 Beckett
Light, Shining, Shadow
Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.113, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
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.