Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I gave up before birth.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Birth was the death of him.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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