Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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