What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTI pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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 could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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