With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.
SAMUEL BECKETTThe dust will not settle in our time. And when it does some great roaring machine will come and whirl it all skyhigh again.
More Samuel Beckett Quotes
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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But at this place, at this moment of time, all mankind is us, whether we like it or not. Let us make the most of it, before it is too late!
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I pause to record that I feel in extraordinary form. Delirium perhaps.
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.
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Go on failing. Go on. Only next time, try to fail better.
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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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Fail, fail again, fail better.
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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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Don’t look for meaning in the words. Listen to the silences.
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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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To restore silence is the role of objects.
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What do we do now, now that we are happy?
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My mistakes are my life.
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Habit is the ballast that chains the dog to his vomit.
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