"What can it matter to me, that I……" — Samuel Beckett
"What can it matter to me, that I succeed or fail ? The undertaking is none of mine, if they want me to succeed I'll fail, and vice versa, so as not to be rid of my tormentors."
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220 Quotes by Samuel Beckett
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not…
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and…
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You're on earth. There's no cure for that.
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I can't go on. I'll go on.
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
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Nothing matters but the writing. There has been nothing else worthwhile... a stain upon the silence.
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always…
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The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops.…
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James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to…
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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