What do we do now, now that we are happy?
SAMUEL BECKETTPeople are bloody ignorant apes.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I gave up before birth.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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