Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
SAMUEL BECKETTPerhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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