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.
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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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