If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETTThen 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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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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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