You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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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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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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You’re on earth. There’s no cure for that.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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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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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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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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