All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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My mistakes are my life.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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