Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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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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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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