Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
SAMUEL BECKETTIn my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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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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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.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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