But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
SAMUEL BECKETTSometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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