The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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