Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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I gave up before birth.
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