If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
SAMUEL BECKETTPerhaps 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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