My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETTI marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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