Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
SAMUEL BECKETTAny fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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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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