I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
SAMUEL BECKETTGo on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Birth was the death of him.
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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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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Any fool can turn a blind eye but who knows what the ostrich sees in the sand.
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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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Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
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