What do we do now, now that we are happy?
SAMUEL BECKETTEvery word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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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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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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