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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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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