I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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