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 BECKETTIn my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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I gave up before birth.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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 essential doesn’t change.
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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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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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