It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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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.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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