To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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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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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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