All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETTYou’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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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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Birth was the death of him.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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