Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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 gave up before birth.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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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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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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