The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
SAMUEL BECKETTYou’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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