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.
SAMUEL BECKETTIt was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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I gave up before birth.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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