Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTI gave up before birth.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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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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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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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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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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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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