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 BECKETTDon’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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