There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
SAMUEL BECKETTWe have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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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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