What do we do now, now that we are happy?
SAMUEL BECKETTI tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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