What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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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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Birth was the death of him.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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