I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Birth was the death of him.
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