The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
SAMUEL BECKETTPerhaps 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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