I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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