What do we do now, now that we are happy?
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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