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.
SAMUEL BECKETTLife is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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