You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTWords are the clothes thoughts wear.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn’t want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn’t want them back.
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I gave up before birth.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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The whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
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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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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.
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Words and images run riot in my head, pursuing, flying, clashing, merging, endlessly. But beyond this tumult there is a great calm, and a great indifference, never really to be troubled by anything again.
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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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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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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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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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