Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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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 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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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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