That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
SAMUEL BECKETTPerhaps 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Birth was the death of him.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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