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.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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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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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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