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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Birth was the death of him.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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