I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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