Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETTWith all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Birth was the death of him.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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