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.
SAMUEL BECKETTI gave up before birth.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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