The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTMemories 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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