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What sky! What light! Ah in spite of all it is a blessed thing to be alive in such weather, and out of hospital.
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What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come
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Poetry is essentially the antithesis of Metaphysics: Metaphysics purge the mind of the senses and cultivate the disembodiment of the spiritual; Poetry is all passionate and feeling and animates the inanimate; Metaphysics are most perfect when concerned with universals; Poetry, when most concerned with particulars.
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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If I was dead, I wouldn't know I was dead. That's the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Until the day when, your endurance gone, in this world for you without arms, you catch up in yours the first mangy cur you meet, carry it for the time needed for it to love it and you it, then throw it away.
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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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You are not satisfied unless form is so strictly divorced from content that you can comprehend the one without almost without bothering to read the other.
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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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As it is with the love of the body, so with the friendship of the mind, the full is only reached by admittance to the most retired places.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
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Let us do something, while we have the chance!... Let us make the most of it, before it is too late! Let us represent worthily for one the foul brood to which a cruel fate consigned us!
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My work is a matter of fundamental sounds (no joke intended) made as fully as possible, and I accept responsibility for nothing else. If people want to have headaches among the overtones, let them. And provide their own aspirin.
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Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
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I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.
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Watt's concern, deep as it appeared, was not after all what the figure was, in reality, but with what the figure appeared to be, in reality.
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When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.
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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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For the only way one can speak of nothing is to speak of it as though it were something, just as the only way one can speak of God is to speak of him as though he were a man, which to be sure he was, in a sense, for a time, and as the only way one can speak of man, even our anthropologists have realized that, is to speak of him as though he were a termite.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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Born:
April 13, 1906
Died:
December 22, 1989
(aged 83)
Bio:
Samuel Barclay Beckett was an Irish avant-garde novelist, playwright, theatre director, and poet, who lived in Paris for most of his adult life and wrote in both English and French.
Known for:
Waiting for Godot (1952)
Endgame (1957)
Krapp's Last Tape (1958)
Happy Days (1960)
Not I (1972)
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