That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETTGo on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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