Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness.
SAMUEL BECKETTI could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
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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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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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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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People are bloody ignorant apes.
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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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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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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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