Quote #24

All I say cancels out, I'll have said nothing.

More from Samuel Beckett

  1. They never lynch children, babies, no matter what they do they are whitewashed in advance
  2. It's to me this evening something has to happen, to my body as in myth and metamorphosis, this old body to which nothing ever happened, or …
  3. I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell another. Living so…
  4. 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…
  5. The short winter's day was drawing to a close. It seems to me sometimes that these are the only days I have ever known, and especially that…
  6. How tell what remains ? But it's the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming ? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and s…
  7. Does one ever know oneself why one laughs?
  8. To think that in a moment all will be said, all to do again.

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