Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
SAMUEL BECKETTWe have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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I gave up before birth.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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