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 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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