We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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My mistakes are my life.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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 gave up before birth.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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