I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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 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.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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