People are bloody ignorant apes.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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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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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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