I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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