Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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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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