There’s never an end for the sea.
SAMUEL BECKETT
To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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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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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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Yes, 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.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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.
SAMUEL BECKETT