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.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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