Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
SAMUEL BECKETTThat desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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