I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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