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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.

The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.

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

We could have saved sixpence. We could have saved fivepence. But at what cost?

Samuel Beckett
Art, Philosophy, History

I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.

Samuel Beckett
Art, Philosophy, Knowing

That's what hell must be like, small chat to the babbling of Lethe about the good old days when we wished we were dead.

Samuel Beckett
Art, Philosophy, History

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

Samuel Beckett
Art, Philosophy, Reality
First Love (1973) p. 8

We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.

Samuel Beckett
Art, Philosophy, Should Have
Samuel Beckett (1959). “Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts”

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