There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
SAMUEL BECKETTIt was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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