Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly 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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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