The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo restore silence is the role of objects.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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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 end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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