Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
SAMUEL BECKETTAny fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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