What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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