Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETTWe have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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