Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTDear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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