Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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