Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
SAMUEL BECKETTFriendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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 mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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My mistakes are my life.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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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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