If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All has not been said and never will be.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Birth was the death of him.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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