Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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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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The essential doesn’t change.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I gave up before birth.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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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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