I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTSometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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