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.
SAMUEL BECKETTGo on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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My mistakes are my life.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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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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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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