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Samuel Beckett Inspirational Quotes (194)

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Humbly to ask a favour of people who are on the point of knocking your brains out sometimes produces good results.
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In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg. Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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Clear to me at last that the dark I have always struggled to keep under is in reality my most
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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There is at least this to be said for mind, that it can dispel mind.
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Try again. Fail again. Try better.
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When the object is perceived as particular and unique and not merely the member of a family, when it appears independent of any general notion and detached from the sanity of a cause, isolated and inexplicable in the light of ignorance, then and only then may it be a source of enchantment.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
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Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
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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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No painting is more replete than Mondrian's.
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What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come
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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Be again, be again. (Pause.) All that old misery. (Pause.) Once wasn't enough for you.
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