If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
SAMUEL BECKETTEver tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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The essential doesn’t change.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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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 day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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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 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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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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