I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe essential doesn’t change.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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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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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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