Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETTDear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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