Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTHabit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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