There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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