QUOTES by Samuel Beckett
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If people who are in a difficulty will only do the first little reasonable thing which they can clearly recognize as reasonable, they will always find the next step more easy both to see and take.
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It stands to reason that he who would cure a moral ailment must be practically acquainted with it in all its bearings.
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Every one should keep a mental wastepaper basket and the older he grows the more things he will consign to it - torn up to irrecoverable tatters.
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Der Unterschied zwischen Gott und einem Historiker: Gott kann die Vergangenheit nicht �ndern.
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All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense, but some are greater nonsense than others.
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Union may be strength, but it is mere brute strength unless wisely directed.
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I have never written on any subject unless I believed that the authorities on it were hopelessly wrong.
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Happiness and misery consist in a progression towards better or worse; it does not matter how high up or low down you are, it depends not on this, but on the direction in which you are tending.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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People in general are equally horrified at hearing the Christian religion doubted, and at seeing it practiced.
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A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand.
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Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
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Exploring is delightful to look forward to and back upon, but it is not comfortable at the time, unless it be of such an easy nature as not to deserve the name.
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Life is like music, it must be composed by ear, feeling and instinct, not by rule. Nevertheless one had better know the rules, for they sometimes guide in doubtful cases, though not often.
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Young people have a marvellous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
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There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
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Truth might be heroic, but it was not within the range of practical domestic politics.
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A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.
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The world is naturally averse to all truth it sees or hears but swallows nonsense and a lie with greediness and gluttony.
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A definition is the enclosing a wilderness of idea within a wall of words.
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It has been said that although God cannot alter the past, historians can --it is perhaps because they can be useful to Him in this respect that He tolerates their existence.
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Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.
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Let us eat and drink neither forgetting death unduly nor remembering it. The Lord hath mercy on whom he will have mercy, etc., and the less we think about it the better.
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Books are like imprisoned souls until someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.
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A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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Genius might be described as a supreme capacity for getting its possessors into trouble of all kinds
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Words are like money; there is nothing so useless, unless when in actual use.
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All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income
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To himself everyone is immortal; he may know that he is going to die, but he can never know he is dead.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it.
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