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 BECKETTThe whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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