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.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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