Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTDear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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