Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTI use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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