Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTHe 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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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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Yes, there were times when I forgot not only who I was but that I was, forgot to be.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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I 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.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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But what matter whether I was born or not, have lived or not, am dead or merely dying. I shall go on doing as I have always done, not knowing what it is I do, nor who I am, nor where I am, nor if I am.
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All mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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