Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTI marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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For 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.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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My mistakes are my life.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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