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I say me, knowing all the while it's not me.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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More quotes by Samuel Beckett
Better hope deferred than none.
Samuel Beckett
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.
Samuel Beckett
James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.
Samuel Beckett
Abode where lost bodies roam each searching for its lost one.
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If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
Samuel Beckett
To him who has nothing it is forbidden not to relish filth.
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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett
Don't touch me! Don't question me! Don't speak to me! Stay with me!
Samuel Beckett
It is better to adopt the simplest explanation, even if it is not simple, even if it does not explain very much. A bright light is not necessary, a taper is all one needs to live in strangeness, if it faithfully burns.
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Habit is a compromise effected between an individual and his environment.
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Sloth is all passions the most powerful.
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I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t know.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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.
Samuel Beckett
The search for the means to put an end to things, an end to speech, is what enables the discourse to continue.
Samuel Beckett
If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
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But it seems impossible to speak and yet say nothing, you think you have succeeded, but you always overlook something.
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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
Samuel Beckett
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.
Samuel Beckett
There is this to be said for Dachsunds of such length and lowness as Nelly, that it makes very little difference to their appearance whether they stand, sit or lie.
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