The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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