All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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