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Better hope deferred than none.

Samuel Beckett

My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Life Mistake Myself One Liner
If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Current Death Stand Yourself
Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Charity Defense
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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Home Myself Rain Window Writing
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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End Greatness Light Myself Patience Shadow Shine
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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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Day Death Normal Short Yourself
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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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Habit Life Perspective
To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Object Restore Role Silence
Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Friendship Human Solitude
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Alcohol Grudge Whiskey

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