I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
SAMUEL BECKETTHabit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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For 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.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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