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.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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