Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETTHe 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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!
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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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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I 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.
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