To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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