Do we mean love, when we say love?
SAMUEL BECKETTGo on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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