To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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