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.
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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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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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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Birth was the death of him.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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