He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do we do now, now that we are happy?
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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