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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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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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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Birth was the death of him.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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