Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is more real than nothing.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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