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 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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Birth was the death of him.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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