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 BECKETTThe end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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 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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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