All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
SAMUEL BECKETTI pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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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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I gave up before birth.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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