To restore silence is the role of objects.
SAMUEL BECKETTI could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Birth was the death of him.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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