I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
SAMUEL BECKETTI have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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