7 Quotes by Samuel Beckett about self
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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To be always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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The new light above my table is a great improvement. With all this darkness around me I feel less alone. (Pause.) In a way. (Pause.) I love to get up and move about in it, then back here to... (hesitates) ...me. (Pause.)
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Henry: I usen't to need anyone, just to myself, stories, there was a great one about an old fellow called Bolton, I never finished it, I never finished any of them, I never finished anything, everything always went on for ever. (Pause.)
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But even them, my pains, I understand ill. That must come from my not being all pain and nothing else. There's the rub. Then they recede, or I, till they fill me with amaze and wonder, seen from a better planet. Not often, but I ask no more. Catch-cony life! To be nothing but pain, how that would simplify matters! Omnidolent! Impious dream.
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The reality of the individualis an incoherent reality and must be expressed incoherently.
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I, of whom I know nothing, I know my eyes are open, because of the tears that pour from them unceasingly.
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