Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTMy mistakes are my life.
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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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I gave up before birth.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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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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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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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 tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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