I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Birth was the death of him.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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