Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTLife is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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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 has not been said and never will be.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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