Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETT
SAMUEL BECKETT
Samuel Beckett on imagination
Samuel Beckett79 quotes“Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.”
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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!
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The essential doesn’t change.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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