Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTGo on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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