My mistakes are my life.
SAMUEL BECKETTI use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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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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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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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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