We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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I gave up before birth.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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