Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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