Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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