Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do we do now, now that we are happy?
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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