I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is more real than nothing.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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But 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!
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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 more real than nothing.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I gave up before birth.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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