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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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Long, Waiting, Forever

  Samuel Beckett (1959). “Molloy”, John Calder Pub Ltd

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• Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!

  Samuel Beckett

  Waiting For Godot, Speak, Stay With Me

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.412, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Poets are the sense, philosophers­­ the intelligence­­ of humanity.

  Samuel Beckett

  Humanity, Philosopher, Poet

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.148, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench

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  Sunshine, Trying, Together

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.111, Grove Press

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• Habit is a great deadener.

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  Habit

  Waiting for Godot (1955) act 2

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• Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Brain, Favour

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.167, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

  Samuel Beckett

  Bored, Awful, Waiting For Godot

  Waiting for Godot act 1 (1952)

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• What was God doing with himself before the creation?

  Samuel Beckett

  Creation

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.161, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.

  Samuel Beckett

  Thinking, Want, Ass

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It was the only way to progress, to stop.

  Samuel Beckett

  Progress, Way

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.305, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

  Samuel Beckett

  Solitude, Proust, Negation

  Samuel Beckett (1931). “Proust”

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• The essential doesn't change.

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  Essentials

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”, p.36, Faber & Faber

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• I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.

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  Mean, Use, Taught

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Endgame and Act Without Words”, p.51, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.

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  Perception, Experience, Vulgar

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”

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• The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Memories, Mean, Stories

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.212, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.

  Samuel Beckett

  Silence, Gone, Awful

  Quoted in Deirdre Bair, Samuel Beckett (1978)

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• All this business of a labour to accomplish, before I can end, of words to say, a truth to recover, in order to say it, before I can end, of an imposed task, once known, long neglected, finally forgotten, to perform, before I can be done with speaking, done with listening, I invented it all, in the hope it would console me, help me to go on, allow me to think of myself as somewhere on a road, moving, between a beginning and an end, gaining ground, losing ground, getting lost, but somehow in the long run making headway.

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  Running, Moving, Thinking

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.25, Faber & Faber

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• To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?

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  Thinking, Waiting For Godot, Godot

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.454, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The sky sinks in the morning, this fact has been insufficiently observed.

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  Morning, Sky, Dawn

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.147, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Birth was the death of him.

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  Death, Birth

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.109, Faber & Faber

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• Do we mean love, when we say love?

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  Mean, Mean Love

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.92, Faber & Faber

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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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  Intelligent, Mind, Sometimes

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.124, Faber & Faber

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• All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.

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  Prayer, Poetry, Paradigm

  Samuel Beckett (2013). “Selected Poems 1930-1988”, p.10, Faber & Faber

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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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  Art, Philosophy, Dust

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “All That Fall and Other Plays for Radio and Screen”, p.38, Faber & Faber

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• Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

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  Humanity, Philosopher, Poet

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.148, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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