The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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