I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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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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