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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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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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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
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And what I have, what I am, is enough, was always enough for me, and as far as my dear little sweet little future is concerned I have no qualms, I have a good time coming.
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My keepers, why keepers, I'm in no danger of stirring an inch, ah I see, it's to make me think I'm a prisoner, frantic with corporeality, rearing to get out and away.
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The short winter’s day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that most charming moment of all, just before night wipes them out.
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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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All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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