The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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