To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords are the clothes thoughts wear.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Birth was the death of him.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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