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.
SAMUEL BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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