Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to 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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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