I gave up before birth.
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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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