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!
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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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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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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