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Great Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- Habit is a great deadener.
- Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking…
- The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.)…
- But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to…
- Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great…
- We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
- He brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence.
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