I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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