Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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 has not been said and never will be.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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