Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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