All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to 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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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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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