The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
SAMUEL BECKETTHabit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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