What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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