70+ Samuel Beckett Quotes | Minimalist Quotes

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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End Fly Greatness Head Image Myself Pursue Trouble Word
There’s never an end for the sea.
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Deep End One Liner Sea
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Feeling Myself Record
What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Action Life Question Spiritual
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Motivational One Liner Success
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Cure Earth One Liner
Birth was the death of him.
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Born Death Deep Himself One Liner
In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Head Myself Universe Window
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Forget Myself Time
It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dreams Effect Horrible Myself
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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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Dangerous Kill Memories Mindset Thinking Yourself
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Death Forget Man
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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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time
All has not been said and never will be.
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Talk Voice Word
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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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself

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