I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTI have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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