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 BECKETTThere’s never an end for the sea.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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My mistakes are my life.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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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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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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