Samuel Beckett on dreams
Samuel Beckett79 quotes“It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.”
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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!
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The essential doesn’t change.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett 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.
Samuel BeckettSamuel Beckett
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The ocean can be yours; why should you stop Beguiled by dreams of evanescent dew? The secrets of the sun are yours, but you Content yourself with motes trapped in beams.
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Coretta Scott KingCoretta Scott King Everybody wants to be somebody. The thing you have to do is give them confidence they can. You have to give a kid a dream.
George ForemanGeorge Foreman Before anything, I wanted to be a rapper. I used to make beats and I would start singing to layer my beats and that’s kind of how I realized I could sing.
Brent FaiyazBrent Faiyaz Find someone who turns your hopes of maybe into dreams of always.
Kate WestKate West The combination of old and new is what every wrestling organization should be like. That way, you have a chance to match up the legends in dream main events.
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