The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTIn my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Memories 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.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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