Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTGo on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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 gave up before birth.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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