The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
SAMUEL BECKETTThere’s never an end for the sea.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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