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.
SAMUEL BECKETTDance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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