It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
SAMUEL BECKETTPeople are bloody ignorant apes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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