You won’t believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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 have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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I marshalled the words and opened my mouth, thinking I would hear them. But all I heard was a kind of rattle, unintelligible even to me who knew what was intended.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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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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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain upon the silence.
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We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener.
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Then I went back into the house and wrote, It is midnight. The rain is beating on the windows. It was not midnight. It was not raining.
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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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If I was dead, I wouldn’t know I was dead. That’s the only thing I have against death. I want to enjoy my death.
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The dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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All has not been said and never will be.
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There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.
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