Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
SAMUEL BECKETTDance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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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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