The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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