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 BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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