Birth was the death of him.
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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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My mistakes are my life.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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