What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
SAMUEL BECKETTBut 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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