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.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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 do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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