I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTYou’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All has not been said and never will be.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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