Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETTMy mistakes are my life.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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