What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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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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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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