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 BECKETTBut 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!
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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 poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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