Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETTBirth was the death of him.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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