Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTDance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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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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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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