Quote #20

Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?

More from Samuel Beckett

  1. Poor juvenile solutions, explaining nothing. No need then for caution, we may reason on to our heart's content, the fog won't lift.
  2. The short winter's day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that…
  3. Yes, I don't know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time, or a moment…
  4. I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living so…
  5. I felt ill at ease with all this air about me, lost before the confusion of innumerable prospects.
  6. They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance
  7. I have always been amazed at my contemporaries' lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
  8. All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing.

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