We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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