There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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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 at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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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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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.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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