The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTWith all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Perhaps 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.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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