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.
SAMUEL BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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