What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do we do now, now that we are happy?
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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I gave up before birth.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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 have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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