Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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