Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTNothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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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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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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