The essential doesn’t change.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll has not been said and never will be.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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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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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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