I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTYou’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I gave up before birth.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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