All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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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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