I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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Birth was the death of him.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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If 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.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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