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Know Quotes by Samuel Beckett
- All I know is what the words know, and dead things, and that makes a handsome little sum, with a beginning and a middle and…
- Where am I, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go…
- What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
- And all these questions I ask myself. It is not in a spirit of curiosity. I cannot be silent. About myself I need know nothing.…
- I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than…
- What are we doing here, that is the question. And we are blessed in this, that we happen to know the answer. Yes, in the…
- I don't know why I told this story. I could just as well have told another. Perhaps some other time I'll be able to tell…
- I knew it would soon be the end, so I played the part, you know, the part of — how shall I say, I don’t…
- In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
- She felt, as she felt so often with Murphy, spattered with words that went dead as soon as they sounded; each word obliterated, before it…
- I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had…
- If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.
- The essential is never to arrive anywhere, never to be anywhere. The essential is to go on squirming forever at the edge of the line,…
- It's so nice to know where you're going, in the early stages. It almost rids you of the wish to go there.
- For to know nothing is nothing, not to want to know anything likewise, but to be beyond knowing anything, to know you are beyond knowing…
- ...you must say words, as long as there are any, until they find me, until they say me, strange pain, strange sin, you must go…
- But I know what darkness is, it accumulates, thickens, then suddenly bursts and drowns everything.
- Not to want to say, not to know what you want to say, not to be able to say what you think you want to…
- Yes, I dont know why, but I have never been disappointed, and I often was in the early days, without feeling at the same time,…
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