Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
SAMUEL BECKETTWith all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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