The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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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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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Birth was the death of him.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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