I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut 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!
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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