Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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