I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTAgainst the charitable gesture there is no defence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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I gave up before birth.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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