He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
SAMUEL BECKETTThat desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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