"We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals."

Beckett, Samuel on Age and Aging
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"To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something."

Beckett, Samuel on Age and Aging
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"What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes."

Beckett, Samuel on Destiny
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"Probably nothing in the world arouses more false hopes Than the first four hours of a diet."

Beckett, Samuel on Diets and Dieting
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"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."

Beckett, Samuel on Failure
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"How can one better magnify the Almighty than by sniggering with him at his little jokes, particularly the poorer ones."

Beckett, Samuel on God
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"The bastard! He doesn't exist!"

Beckett, Samuel on God
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"Habit is a great deadener."

Beckett, Samuel on Habit
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"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful."

Beckett, Samuel on Inertia
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"We are all born mad. Some remain so."

Beckett, Samuel on Insanity
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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 hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss."

Beckett, Samuel on Parents and Parenting
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"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?"

Beckett, Samuel on Punctuality
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"Make sense who may. I switch off."

Beckett, Samuel on Resignation
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"I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo."

Beckett, Samuel on Silence
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"Birth was the death of him."

Beckett, Samuel on Birth
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"There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet."

Beckett, Samuel on Blame
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"Just under the surface I shall be, all together at first, then separate and drift, through all the earth and perhaps in the end through a cliff into the sea, something of me. A ton of worms in an acre, that is a wonderful thought, a ton of worms, I believe it."

Beckett, Samuel on Burial
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"To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now."

Beckett, Samuel on Chaos
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"Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world."

Beckett, Samuel on Unhappiness
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"Words are all we have."

Beckett, Samuel on Words
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"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."

Beckett, Samuel on Cries and Crying
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"Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must."

Beckett, Samuel on Death and Dying
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