I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTMy mistakes are my life.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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I gave up before birth.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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