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 BECKETTYes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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