I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETTIn my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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