All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
SAMUEL BECKETTI gave up before birth.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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I gave up before birth.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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