Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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