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I did not want to write, but I had to resign myself to it in the end.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?
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Silence and darkness were all I craved. Well, I get a certain amount of both. They being one.
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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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In reality we are one and all from the unthinkable first to the no less unthinkable last glued together in a vast imbrication of flesh without breach or fissure
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Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.
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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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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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The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
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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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Watt had watched people smile and thought he understood how it was done.
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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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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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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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The human eyelid is not teartight (happily for the human eye).
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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Our vulgar perception is not concerned with other than vulgar phenomena.
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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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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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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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I have nothing but wastes and wilds of self-translation before me for many miserable months to come.
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The loss of my sight was a great fillip. If I could go deaf and dumb I think I might pant on to be a hundred.
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Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ.
Martin Luther
Samuel Beckett
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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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