The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
SAMUEL BECKETTI use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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