Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTPoets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I gave up before birth.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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Nothing is more real than nothing.
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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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