The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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