The essential doesn’t change.
SAMUEL BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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