It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
SAMUEL BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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