Better hope deferred than none.
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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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 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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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