Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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 more real than nothing.
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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 you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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