The essential doesn’t change.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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