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Stories Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell…
- The memory came faint and cold of the story I might have told, a story in the likeness of my life, I mean without the…
- That's the mistake I made, one of the mistakes, to have wanted a story for myself, whereas life alone is enough.
- ...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go…
- Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with…
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