"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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"My mistakes are my life."

Samuel Beckett

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"Perhaps my best years are gone but I wouldn’t want them back, not with the fire in me now."

Samuel Beckett

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"I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent."

Samuel Beckett, Endgame

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"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](via fuckyeahexistentialism)

Samuel Beckett at Le Petit Café, Boulevard St-Jacques, Paris, 1985 -by John Minihan [also + via John Minihan]
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