Fail, fail again, fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTI have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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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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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.
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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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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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