I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTI use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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