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.
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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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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Fail, 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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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