I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTPeople are bloody ignorant apes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Birth was the death of him.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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