Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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 sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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