Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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