Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Birth was the death of him.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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