Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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