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.
SAMUEL BECKETTDance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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My mistakes are my life.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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