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• Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.

  Samuel Beckett

  Life Is, Habit, Succession

  Samuel Beckett, Georges Duthuit (1965). “Proust”, Riverrun Press

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• What do we do now, now that we are happy?

  Samuel Beckett

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.415, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

  Samuel Beckett

  Darkness, Feels, Rounds

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Krapp's Last Tape and Other Shorter Plays”, p.24, Faber & Faber

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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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  What Matters, Who I Am, Knowing

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.219, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.

  Samuel Beckett

  Goes On, Ends, Endgame

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “Endgame”, p.55, Faber & Faber

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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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  Memories, Thinking, Mind

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.46, Grove Press

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• The confusion is not my invention. We cannot listen to a conversation for five minutes without being aware of the confusion. It is all around us and our only chance now is to let it in. The only chance of renovation is to open our eyes and see the mess. It is not a mess you can make sense of.

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  Eye, Confusion, Chance

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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!

  Samuel Beckett

  Too Late, Waiting For Godot, Moments

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.71, Faber & Faber

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• All has not been said and never will be.

  Samuel Beckett

  Originality, Said

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• All life long, the same questions, the same answers.

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  Long, Answers, Long Life

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Complete Dramatic Works of Samuel Beckett”, p.91, Faber & Faber

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• The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust

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  Tolerance, Aversion, Indifference

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Murphy”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Better hope deferred than none.

  Samuel Beckett

  Motivational

  Samuel Beckett (2014). “Nohow On: Company, Ill Seen Ill Said, and Worstward Ho”, p.30, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• People are bloody ignorant apes.

  Samuel Beckett

  People, Ignorant, Apes

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.357, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.

  Samuel Beckett

  Time

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.51, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Use It Or Lose It, Solitude, Three Things

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.389, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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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  Want, Enjoy, Knows

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• Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.

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  Reality, Surface, Realism

  Samuel Beckett (1970). “The collected works of Samuel Beckett”

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• Dear incomprehension, it's thanks to you I'll be myself, in the end.

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  Thanks, Ends, Dear

  Samuel Beckett (2012). “The Unnamable”, p.34, Faber & Faber

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• The Tuesday scowls, the Wednesday growls, the Thursday curses, the Friday howls, the Saturday snores, the Sunday yawns, the Monday morns, the Monday morns. The whacks, the moans, the cracks, the groans, the welts, the squeaks, the belts, the shrieks, the pricks, the prayers, the kicks, the tears, the skelps, and the yelps.

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  Friday, Monday, Prayer

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Watt”, p.37, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can.

  Samuel Beckett

  Trying, Synthesizers, Joyce

  1981 In the New York Times,19 Apr.

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• There's never an end for the sea.

  Samuel Beckett

  Sea, Ends

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• Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.

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  Waiting, Motto, My Motto

  Samuel Beckett (2009). “Three Novels: Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable”, p.109, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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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.

  Samuel Beckett

  Rain, House, Midnight

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “Molloy”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• What do I know of man's destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.

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  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Samuel Beckett (1995). “The Complete Short Prose, 1929-1989”, p.192, Grove Press

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• If you don't know where you are currently standing, you're dead.

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  Baseball, Goals Dreams, Yankees

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