If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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 poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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