We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
SAMUEL BECKETTBirth was the death of him.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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