People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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I gave up before birth.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Birth was the death of him.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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