Samuel Beckett Quotes

• Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.

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• Words are the clothes thoughts wear.

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• I was in hospital once. There was a man in another ward, dying of throat cancer. In the silence, I could hear his screams continually. That’s the only kind of form my work has.

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• To carefully choose one’s moment and keep quiet, is this the only way one can be and live?

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• CLOV: Do you believe in the life to come? HAMM: Mine was always that.

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• Everything is false. There is no one…there is nothing.

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• They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.

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• We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.

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• You overdo it with your carrots.

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• I am like that. I either forget right away or I never forget.

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• VLADIMIR: That passed the time. ESTRAGON:  It would have passed in any case. VLADIMIR: Yes, but not so rapidly.

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• He can’t  think without his hat.

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• Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it’s awful!

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• There is man in his entirety, blaming his shoe when his foot is guilty.

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• I can no longer bear to be human and I will no longer try.

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• 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.

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• Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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• To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.

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• I shall soon be quite dead at last in spite of all.

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• The only sin is the sin of being born

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Samuel Beckett (60)

Birth:	13th April, 1906
Death:	22nd December, 1989
Nationality:	Irish
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Translator, Writer, Playwriter

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