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.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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