Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords are the clothes thoughts wear.
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 are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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