I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, 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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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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