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.
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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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