If there is one question I dread, to which I have never been able to invent a satisfactory reply, it is the question what am I doing.
SAMUEL BECKETTGo on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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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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If you do not love me I shall not be loved If I do not love you I shall not love.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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Words are the clothes thoughts wear.
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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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He who has waited long enough, will wait forever. And there comes the hour when nothing more can happen and nobody more can come and all is ended but the waiting that knows itself in vain.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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Better hope deferred than none.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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The essential doesn’t change.
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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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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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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Birth was the death of him.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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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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All has not been said and never will be.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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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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My mistakes are my life.
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