People are bloody ignorant apes.
SAMUEL BECKETTHabit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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