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VLADIMIR: What do they say? ESTRAGON: They talk about their lives. VLADIMIR: To have lived is not enough for them. ESTRAGON: They have to talk about it.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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 goes by the name of love is banishment, with now and then a postcard from the homeland, such is my considered opinion, this evening.
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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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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
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How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century, depending on what I meant by here, and me, and being, and there I never went looking for extravagant meanings, there I never much varied, only the here would sometimes seem to vary.
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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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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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