There’s never an end for the sea.
SAMUEL BECKETTDance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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