Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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