Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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