The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo restore silence is the role of objects.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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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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I gave up before birth.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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