What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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