Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
SAMUEL BECKETTMy mistakes are my life.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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