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.
SAMUEL BECKETTMy mistakes are my life.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Birth was the death of him.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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