The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
SAMUEL BECKETT
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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