Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETTBirth was the death of him.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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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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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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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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