Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETTMemories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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