Nothing is more real than nothing.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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