I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETTMemories 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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