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.
SAMUEL BECKETTEver tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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