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Better hope deferred than none.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Habit is a compromise effected between the individual and his environment, or between the individual and his own organic eccentricities, the guarantee of a dull inviolability, the lightning-conductor of his existence.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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Words fail, there are times when even they fail.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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Yes, light, there is no other word for it.
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Love requited is a short circuit.
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All the things you would do gladly, oh without enthusiasm, but gladly, all the things there seems no reason for your not doing, and that you do not do! Can it be we are not free? It might be worth looking into.
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We should have thought of it when the world was young, in the nineties.
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