Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Birth was the death of him.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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