Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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I gave up before birth.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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 poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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