Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere’s never an end for the sea.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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