Fail, fail again, fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTWe have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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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 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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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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