What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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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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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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