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.
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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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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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