That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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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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I gave up before birth.
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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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