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If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.
Samuel Beckett
Body
I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
Samuel Beckett
Butterflies
Man
State
Vertigo
There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
Samuel Beckett
Fault
Feet
Man
Habit is a great deadener.
Samuel Beckett
Habit
If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
Samuel Beckett
Love
Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
Samuel Beckett
Nothingness
Silence
Word
I write about myself with the same pencil and in the same exercise book as about him. It is no longer I, but another whose life is just beginning.
Samuel Beckett
Life
Beginning
Exercise
Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett
University
Do we mean love, when we say love?
Samuel Beckett
Love
Birth was the death of him.
Samuel Beckett
Death
All 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.
Samuel Beckett
Beginning
End
Words
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
Samuel Beckett
Time
That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
Samuel Beckett
Earth
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
Samuel Beckett
Faults
The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep, somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.
Samuel Beckett
Quality
Tears
World