What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTPoets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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