All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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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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I gave up before birth.
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