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.

Quote by Samuel Beckett

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

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

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to...

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to...

Birth was the death of him.

Birth was the death of him.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to...

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to...

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

I can't go on. I'll go on.

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist...

To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist...

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night...

They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it's night...

Do we mean love, when we say love?

Do we mean love, when we say love?

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a...

All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a...

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

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

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

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

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast...

We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast...

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there,...

Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there,...

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I...

James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I...

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

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

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical...

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical...