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.
SAMUEL BECKETTThen I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Birth was the death of him.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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