Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTI gave up before birth.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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