Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
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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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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