I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTEver tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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