The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is more real than nothing.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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!
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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.
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