Futility Quote by Samuel Beckett

“Name, no, nothing is nameable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun.”

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“To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.”

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To what will love not stoop!

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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

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It is useless not to seek, not to want, for when you cease to seek you start to find, and when you cease to…

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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?

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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way.…

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The fatal futility of Fact.

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