Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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 more real than nothing.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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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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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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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