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 BECKETTBut 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!
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Yes, 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.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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