You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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I gave up before birth.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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