I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Words 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.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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My mistakes are my life.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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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