You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETTBetter hope deferred than none.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The essential doesn’t change.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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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 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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