The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
SAMUEL BECKETTEver tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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I gave up before birth.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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