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“No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.”

— Samuel Beckett

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Samuel Beckett Quote: “No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.”

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“No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.”

— Samuel Beckett

Samuel Beckett Quote: “No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.”

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1. “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

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2. “Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.”

— Samuel Beckett

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3. “Fail, fail again, fail better.”

— Samuel Beckett

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4. “I can’t go on. I’ll go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

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5. “Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.”

— Samuel Beckett

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6. “You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.”

— Samuel Beckett

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7. “Where am I, I don’t know, I’ll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don’t know, you must go on, I can’t go on, I’ll go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

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8. “What are we doing here, that is the question.”

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Samuel Beckett

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10. “Nothing is more real than nothing.”

— Samuel Beckett

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11. “What do we do now, now that we are happy?”

— Samuel Beckett

12. “Words are the clothes thoughts wear.”

— Samuel Beckett

13. “Don’t touch me! Don’t question me! Don’t speak to me! Stay with me!”

— Samuel Beckett

14. “We all are born mad. Some remain so.”

— Samuel Beckett

15. “What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the immense confusion one thing alone is clear. We are waiting for Godot to come.”

— Samuel Beckett

16. “How hideous is the semicolon.”

— Samuel Beckett

17. “The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.”

— Samuel Beckett

18. “He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.”

— Samuel Beckett

19. “The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.”

— Samuel Beckett

20. “Estragon: We always find something, eh Didi, to give us the impression we exist? Vladimir: Yes, yes, we’re magicians.”

— Samuel Beckett

21. “Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.”

— Samuel Beckett

22. “Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.”

— Samuel Beckett

23. “All I want to do is sit on my ass and fart and think of Dante.”

— Samuel Beckett

24. “That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.”

— Samuel Beckett

25. “Nothing happens. Nobody comes, nobody goes. It’s awful.”

— Samuel Beckett

26. “Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.”

— Samuel Beckett

27. “ESTRAGON: I can’t go on like this. VLADIMIR: That’s what you think.”

— Samuel Beckett

28. “If I were dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.”

— Samuel Beckett

29. “Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.”

— Samuel Beckett

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30. “People are bloody ignorant apes.”

— Samuel Beckett

31. “God is love. Yes or no? No.”

— Samuel Beckett

32. “Words are all we have.”

— Samuel Beckett

33. “Silence, yes, but what silence! For it is all very fine to keep silence, but one has also to consider the kind of silence one keeps.”

— Samuel Beckett

34. “There are two moments worthwhile in writing, the one when you start and the other when you throw it in the waste-paper basket.”

— Samuel Beckett

35. “They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night once more.”

— Samuel Beckett

36. “Make sense who may. I switch off.”

— Samuel Beckett

37. “If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.”

— Samuel Beckett

38. “When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.”

— Samuel Beckett

39. “Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.”

— Samuel Beckett

40. “I am still alive then. That may come in useful.”

— Samuel Beckett

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

— Samuel Beckett

42. “James Joyce: His writing is not about something. It is the thing itself.”

— Samuel Beckett

43. “I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.”

— Samuel Beckett

44. “My mistakes are my life.”

— Samuel Beckett

45. “To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”

— Samuel Beckett

46. “Do we mean love, when we say love?”

— Samuel Beckett

47. “Estragon: I’m like that. Either I forget right away or I never forget.”

— Samuel Beckett

48. “But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.”

— Samuel Beckett

49. “Try Again, Fail Again, Fail Better.”

— Samuel Beckett

50. “The essential doesn’t change.”

— Samuel Beckett

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