I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
SAMUEL BECKETTHabit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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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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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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