Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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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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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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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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