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Samuel Beckett Inspirational Quotes (194)

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Women are all the bloody sameyou can't love for five minutes without wanting it abolished in brats and house bloody wifery.
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Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don't mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
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Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
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Mysterious affair, electricity.
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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
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Don't look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
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It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.
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Estragon: I'm like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.
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The fact is, it seems, that the most you can hope is to be a little less, in the end, the creature you were in the beginning, and the middle.
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I had seen faces in photographs I might have found beautiful had I known even vaguely in what beauty was supposed to consist. And my father's face, on his death-bolster, had seemed to hint at some form of aesthetics relevant to man. But the faces of the living, all grimace and flush, can they be described as objects?
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The time-state of attainment eliminates so accurately the time-state of aspiration, that the actual seems the inevitable, and, all conscious intellectual effort to reconstitute the invisible and unthinkable as a reality being fruitless, we are incapable of appreciating our joy by comparing it with our sorrow.
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Dying for dark — and the darker the Worse. Strange.
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You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words till all is blank and flat and the whole ghastly business looks like what it is, senseless, speechless, issueless misery.
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Let's go. We can't. Why not? We're waiting for Godot.
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The only thing you must never speak of is your happiness.
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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 old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust
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Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order.
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