The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
SAMUEL BECKETTFail, fail again, fail better.
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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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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He 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.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Memories are killing. So you must not think of certain things, of those that are dear to you, or rather you must think of them, for if you don’t there is the danger of finding them, in your mind, little by little.
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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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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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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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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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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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