Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Better hope deferred than none.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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 am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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 have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETT