Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
– Samuel Beckett
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- POZZO:I am blind.(Silence.)ESTRAGON:Perhaps he can see into the future. – Samuel Beckett
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- Vladimir, be reasonable, you haven’t yet tried everything. And I resumed the struggle. – Samuel Beckett
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- Light heat all known all white heart breath no sound. – Samuel Beckett
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- But he had turned, little by little, a disturbance into words, he had made a pillow of old words, for his head. – Samuel Beckett
- There is no use indicting words, they are no shoddier than what they peddle. – Samuel Beckett
- I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life. – Samuel Beckett
- How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I’d been saving up for her all my life. – Samuel Beckett
- The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain. – Samuel Beckett
- We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist? – Samuel Beckett
- I am not interested in living in a city where there isn’t a production by Samuel Beckett running. – Edward Albee
- Have you shat, my child, I said gently. – Samuel Beckett
- He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it. – Samuel Beckett
- Boys my age with whom, in spite of everything, I was obliged to mix occasionally, mocked me. – Samuel Beckett
- Her smile was like a Samuel Beckett play – easy to read but difficult to interpret. – Bob Smith
- The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day. – Samuel Beckett
- In an instant all will vanish and we’ll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness. – Samuel Beckett
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- Estragon: They’re too bigVladimir: Perhaps you’ll have socks some day – Samuel Beckett
- Estragon: They’re too bigVladimir: Perhaps you’ll have socks some day – Samuel Beckett
- I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation. – Samuel Beckett
- She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt. – Samuel Beckett
- And on the threshold of being no more I succeed in being another. – Samuel Beckett
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- …The less I think of it the more certain I am. – Samuel Beckett
- Seen no matter how and said as seen. Dread of black. Of white. Of void. Let her vanish. And the rest. For good. – Samuel Beckett