All has not been said and never will be.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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