Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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My mistakes are my life.
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