Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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