Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
SAMUEL BECKETTWhat do we do now, now that we are happy?
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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I gave up before birth.
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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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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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We are all born crazy. Some remain that way.
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To have been always what I am – and so changed from what I was.
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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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Do we mean love, when we say love?
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The old endless chain of love, tolerance, indifference, aversion and disgust.
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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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What are we doing here, that is the question.
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To every man his little cross. Till he dies. And is forgotten.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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