But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
SAMUEL BECKETTWith all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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