The essential doesn’t change.
SAMUEL BECKETTFor 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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