You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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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.
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Birth was the death of him.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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