Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is more real than nothing.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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