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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.

Samuel Beckett

For in me there have always been two fools, among others, one asking nothing better than to stay where he is and the other imagining that life might be slightly less horrible a little further on.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
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.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Born Death Live Myself
Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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Better Failure Inspirational Time Try
I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Change Mistake Myself
What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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Artist Mess Task Work
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Cry Dead Greatness Growth Habit Old Time
Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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Clothes Thinking Word
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner
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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Ability Best Life Myself Silence Talk
Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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Imagination Reality Surface
Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it’s the most comical thing in the world.
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Comedy Funny Happiness Myself World
My mistakes are my life.
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Life Mistake Myself One Liner
All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Discrimination Poetry Prayer
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETT

Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat

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