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.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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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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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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