I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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