The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTYou won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Then 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.
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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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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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