Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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