Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTLove, 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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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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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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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