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.
SAMUEL BECKETTI gave up before birth.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I gave up before birth.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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