Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I gave up before birth.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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