I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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