If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETTDear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I gave up before birth.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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