Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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 tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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