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.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I gave up before birth.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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