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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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