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 BECKETTAll has not been said and never will be.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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