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.
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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I gave up before birth.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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