Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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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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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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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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