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.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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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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