What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTLife is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I gave up before birth.
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