All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTMy mistakes are my life.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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