Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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