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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

Samuel Beckett

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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Kind Mouth Myself Open Thinking Word
Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Repeat Try
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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Born Death Live Myself
I gave up before birth.
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Born Give Up Myself
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
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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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
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
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Hide Hunt Myself Wait
There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Head Heart Myself
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Desert Lonely Love Man
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
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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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Deep Love Meaning One Liner
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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End Enough Forever Wait Wasted Time

The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.

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