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Beckett

1906 - 1989 (83)

Beckett
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Quote 1

All of old. Nothing else ever. Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.

Quote 2

The tears of the world are a constant quantity. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

Quote 3

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

Quote 4

My mistakes are my life.

Quote 5

Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It's awful.

Quote 6

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.

Quote 7

ll 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.

Quote 8

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