My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETTLove, 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?
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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