Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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