Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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