I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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I gave up before birth.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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