I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords are the clothes thoughts wear.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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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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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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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 knew what was intended.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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