Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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My mistakes are my life.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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