My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETTLife is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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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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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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