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.
SAMUEL BECKETTI have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Better hope deferred than none.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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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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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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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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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.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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