All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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 tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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