Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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