If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETTBirth was the death of him.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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