Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETT
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I gave up before birth.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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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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