I gave up before birth.
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 don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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My mistakes are my life.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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