Fail, fail again, fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe whisky bears a grudge against the decanter.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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Friendship, according to Proust, is the negation of that irremediable solitude to which every human being is condemned.
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I tried to groan, Help! Help! But the tone that came out was that of polite conversation.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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 essential doesn’t change.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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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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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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