Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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 tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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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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