That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Birth was the death of him.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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