“And sure enough, even waiting will end… if you can just wait long enough.”
William Faulkner (1897–1962) American writer
“He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”
— Samuel Beckett, book Malone Dies
Malone Dies (1951)
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