I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Birth was the death of him.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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My mistakes are my life.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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