The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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 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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Birth was the death of him.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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