Samuel Beckett

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

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

If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.

If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

Birth was the death of him.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

We are all born mad. Some remain so.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

You're on earth. There's no cure for that.

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

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.

Habit is a great deadener.

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on.