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.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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