I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I gave up before birth.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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