Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
SAMUEL BECKETTDon’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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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!
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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