Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTTo have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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My mistakes are my life.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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 am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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