The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTI pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I gave up before birth.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Birth was the death of him.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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