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.
SAMUEL BECKETTWe are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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