All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETTAny fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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My mistakes are my life.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I gave up before birth.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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