Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
SAMUEL BECKETTLove, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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