Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
SAMUEL BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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I gave up before birth.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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