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.
SAMUEL BECKETTI 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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