To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Birth was the death of him.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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