Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
SAMUEL BECKETTHabit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I gave up before birth.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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