Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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