Samuel Beckett Quotes

• If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

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• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

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• 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.

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• I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.

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• Habit is a great deadener.

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• Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.

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• Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

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• 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.

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• Do we mean love, when we say love?

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• 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.

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• Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

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• Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.

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• Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

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• 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.

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• I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.

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• I can’t go on. I’ll go on.

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• What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

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• Birth was the death of him.

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• Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

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• I missed you…and at the same time I was happy. Isn’t that a queer thing?

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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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