If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
SAMUEL BECKETTDance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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