What are we doing here, that is the question.
SAMUEL BECKETTI have my faults, but changing my tune is not one of them.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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There’s never an end for the sea.
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Love, that is all I asked, a little love, daily, twice daily, fifty years of twice daily love like a Paris horse-butcher’s regular, what normal woman wants affection?
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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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But I was not made for the great light that devours, a dim lamp was all I had been given, and patience without end, to shine it on the empty shadows.
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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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Dance first. Think later. It’s the natural order.
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Dear incomprehension, it’s thanks to you I’ll be myself, in the end.
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If you don’t know where you are currently standing, you’re dead.
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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Against the charitable gesture there is no defence.
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Life is habit. Or rather life is a succession of habits.
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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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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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