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 BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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 have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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