All has not been said and never will be.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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