I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
SAMUEL BECKETT
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Do we mean love, when we say 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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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