All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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