Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
SAMUEL BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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 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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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