Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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