The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
SAMUEL BECKETTHe 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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