Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The tears stream down my cheeks from my unblinking eyes. What makes me weep so? From time to time. There is nothing saddening here. Perhaps it is liquefied brain.
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Hamm: There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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Clov: When I fall I'll weep for happiness.
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I get up, go out, and everything is changed. The blood drains from my head, the noise of things bursting, merging, avoiding one another, assails me on all sides, my eyes search in vain for two things alike, each pinpoint of skin screams a different message, I drown in the spray of phenomena.
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Bah, the latest news, the latest news is not the last.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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How tell what remains ? But it’s the end. Or have I been dreaming, am I dreaming? No no, none of that, for dream is nothing, a joke, and significant what is worse.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Krapp: 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.
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I didn’t feel well, but they told me I was well enough. They didn’t say in so many words that I was as well as I would ever be, but that was the implication.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking I believe I’ve never been anywhere.
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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My appearance still made people laugh, with that hearty jovial laugh so good for the health.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
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The essential is to go on squirming forever at the end of the line, as long as there are waters and banks and ravening in heaven a sporting god to plague his creatures, per pro his chosen shits.