Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTI 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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