Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
SAMUEL BECKETTI pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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 could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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