Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo restore silence is the role of objects.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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My mistakes are my life.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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 never an end for the sea.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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