There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere’s never an end for the sea.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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