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 BECKETTDance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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The essential doesn’t change.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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