I gave up before birth.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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