You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTAll mankind is us, whether we like it or not.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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It was long since I had longed for anything and the effect on me was horrible.
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Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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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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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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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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