Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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