Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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My mistakes are my life.
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