If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETTWith all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Birth was the death of him.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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