"And more and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart in order to get to those things (or the nothingness) lying behind it."
Samuel Beckett, 1937 from The Letters
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"And more and more my language appears to me like a veil which one has to tear apart in order to get to those things (or the nothingness) lying behind it."
Samuel Beckett, 1937 from The Letters
(Source: billyjane, via human-voices)
"Perhaps my best years are gone but I wouldn’t want them back, not with the fire in me now."
Samuel Beckett
"I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent."
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett at Le Petit Café, Boulevard St-Jacques, Paris, 1985 -by John Minihan [also + via John Minihan]
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