Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Birth was the death of him.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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