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 BECKETTMemories 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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