I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTI use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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