What do we do now, now that we are happy?
SAMUEL BECKETTFor 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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I gave up before birth.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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