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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

Samuel Beckett

What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.
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Destiny Fate Man Myself
I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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Hard Time Mess Myself Silence Stain
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
The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.
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Boredom Choice Nature Shine Sun
I use the words you taught me. If they don’t mean anything any more, teach me others. Or let me be silent.
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Meaning Myself Silence Teaching Word Yourself
Sometimes I wonder if I’m in my right mind. Then it passes off and I’m as intelligent as ever.
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Intelligence Mindset Myself Right Wonder
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.
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Better Fools Horrible Imagination Life Stay
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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Best Chance Fire Happiness Myself
To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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Death Forget Man
Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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Affection Love Myself Normal Woman
The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.
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Creation Place Time World
The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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Disgust Love Old Tolerance
All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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Answer Life Long Question
You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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Accomplishment Attempt Believe Better Failure Impossible Repeat
I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Alive Help Myself Worth
The essential doesn’t change.
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Change Essence One Liner

Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.

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