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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Written by Samuel Beckett
I can't go on. I'll go on.
Written by 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.
Written by 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.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
Written by Samuel Beckett
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.
Written by Samuel Beckett
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.
Written by Samuel Beckett
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.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Birth was the death of him.
Written by Samuel Beckett
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Written by Samuel Beckett
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.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Habit is a great deadener.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Written by Samuel Beckett
We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
Written by Samuel Beckett
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Words are all we have.
Written by Samuel Beckett
We are all born mad. Some remain so.
Written by Samuel Beckett
What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.
Written by Samuel Beckett
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Written by Samuel Beckett
If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Written by Samuel Beckett
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Written by Samuel Beckett
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.
Written by Samuel Beckett
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Written by Samuel Beckett
They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night once more.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
Written by Samuel Beckett
Do we mean love, when we say love?
Written by Samuel Beckett
No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Written by Samuel Beckett

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