Don’t wait to be hunted to hide, that was always my motto.
SAMUEL BECKETTIf you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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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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All poetry, as discriminated from the various paradigms of prosody, is prayer.
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The end is in the beginning and yet you go on.
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I am still alive then. That may come in useful.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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Yes, 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.
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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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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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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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Reality, whether approached imaginatively or empirically, remains a surface, hermetic.
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