The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
SAMUEL BECKETTHe 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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