I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTBirth was the death of him.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I gave up before birth.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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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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