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.
SAMUEL BECKETTPeople are bloody ignorant apes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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