Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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