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 BECKETTFor 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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