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 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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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