To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Birth was the death of him.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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