For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
SAMUEL BECKETTPoets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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