There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
SAMUEL BECKETTSometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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My mistakes are my life.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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