Fail, fail again, fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTYes, 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.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Better hope deferred than none.
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I have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
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All life long, the same questions, the same answers.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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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.
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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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Art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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There’s something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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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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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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I gave up before birth.
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