Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETTThen 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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