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.
SAMUEL BECKETT
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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 am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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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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