What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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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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