You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
SAMUEL BECKETTLife is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Love, 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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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