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Been Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
- No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
- I have always been amazed at my contemporaries’ lack of finesse, I whose soul writhed from morning to night, in the mere quest of itself.
- To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
- All has not been said and never will be.
- She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it…
- Normally I didn’t see a great deal. I didn’t hear a great deal either. I didn’t pay attention. Strictly speaking I wasn’t there. Strictly speaking…
- How do you manage it, she said, at your age? I told her I'd been saving up for her all my life.
- It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
- How long have I been here, what a question, I've often wondered. And often I could answer, An hour, a month, a year, a century,…
- Already all confusion. Things and imaginings. As of always. Confusion amounting to nothing. Despite precautions. If only she could be pure figment. Unalloyed. This old…
- For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining…
- Decidedly it will never have been given to me to finish anything, except perhaps breathing. One must not be greedy.
- If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am…
- But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to…
- Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time,…
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