Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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