Better hope deferred than none.
SAMUEL BECKETTYou’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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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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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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