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Samuel Beckett Inspirational Quotes (194)

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The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the courage to end or the strength to go on.
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And truly it little matters what I say, this or that or any other thing. Saying is inventing. Wrong, very rightly wrong. You invent nothing, you think you are inventing, you think you are escaping, and all you do is stammer out your lesson, the remnants of a pensum one day got by heart and long forgotten, life without tears, as it is wept.
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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
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Enough to know no knowing.
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Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to say, and never to stop saying, or hardly ever, that is the thing to keep in mind, even in the heat of composition.
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Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praisefrom your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.
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We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?
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If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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There's never an end for the sea.
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I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.
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It was the only way to progress, to stop.
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To-morrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of to-day?
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Absolute virtue is as sure to kill a man as absolute vice is, let alone the dullness of it and the pomposities of it.
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HAMM: We're not beginning to... to... mean something? CLOV: Mean something! You and I, mean something! (Brief laugh.) Ah that's a good one!
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Ah, the old questions, the old answers, there's nothing like them!
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Estragon: Nothing to be done.
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Light black. From pole to pole.
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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Yesterday is not a milestone that has been passed, but a daystone on the beaten track of the years, and irremediably part of us, within us, heavy and dangerous. We are not merely more weary because of yesterday, we are other, no longer what we were before the calamity of yesterday.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.
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