Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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