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All Quotes by author - Samuel Beckett
" All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and an end, as in the well-built phrase and the long sonata of the dead. "
Handsome
Long
Words
" Birth was the death of him. "
Birth
Death
Him
" Do we mean love, when we say love? "
Mean
Love
Say
" Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better. "
Motivational
Try
Better
" Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness. "
Stain
Nothingness
Like
" Habit is a great deadener. "
Great
Habit
" I can't go on. I'll go on. "
Moving On
Go
" If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love. "
You
Love Me
Loved
" I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them. "
Faults
Tune
Them
" I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo. "
Vertigo
More
Man
" It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter. "
Grow
Bad
Day
" I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning. "
Book
Beginning
Life
" 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. "
Out
Bring
Leave
" Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it. "
End
Sea
Me
" No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. "
Dying
Born
Business
" Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. "
Unhappiness
World
Nothing
" Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence. "
Silence
Been
Matters
" There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet. "
You
Over
Man
" The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh. "
Same
World
Laugh
" To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now. "
Find
Artist
Now
" We are all born mad. Some remain so. "
Mad
Remain
Some
" We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much? "
People
Appointment
Boast
" What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes. "
Man
You
Destiny
" 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. "
Go
You
Silence
" Words are all we have. "
Words
Communication
" You're on earth. There's no cure for that. "
Earth
You
Cure
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