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Our sages of blessed memory have said that we must not enjoy any pleasure in this world without reciting a blessing. If we eat any food, or drink any beverage, we must recite a blessing over them before and after.
Speech at the Nobel Banquet in Stockholm, 1966
However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.
Men of Maize
When you die, there is nothing - only a life that will be forgotten.
The Dancing Girl of Izu and Other Stories
It's remarkable how we go on year after year, doing the same old things. We get tired and bored, and ask when they'll come for us.
The Sound of the Mountain
Having oscillated all his life between the torments of a superficial loitering and the horrors of disinterested endeavour, he finds himself at last in a situation where to do nothing exclusively would be an act of the highest value, and significance.
Watt
In an instant all will vanish and we'll be alone once more, in the midst of nothingness.
Waiting for Godot
No choice but stand. Somehow up and stand. Somehow stand. That or groan. The groan so long on its way. No. No groan. Simply pain. Simply up. A time when try how. Try see. Try say. How first it lay. Then somehow knelt. Bit by bit. Then on from there. Bit by bit. Till up at last.
Worstward Ho
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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