My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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