Birth was the death of him.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I gave up before birth.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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