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.
SAMUEL BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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