The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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