All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll life long, the same questions, the same answers.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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.
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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.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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.
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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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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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!
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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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