I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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There 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.
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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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