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My mistakes are my life.
Samuel Beckett
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Samuel Beckett
Age: 83 †
Born: 1906
Born: April 13
Died: 1989
Died: December 22
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Sa-miao-erh Pei-kʻo-tʻe
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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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Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.' You won't believe what you can accomplish by attempting the impossible with the courage to repeatedly fail better.
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To find a form that accommodates the shape of the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
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My notes have a curious tendency, as I realize at last, to annihilate all they purport to record.
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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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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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It's a rare thing not to have been bonny-- once.
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There's something dripping in my head. A heart, a heart in my head.
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Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
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Vladimir: Did I ever leave you? Estragon: You let me go.
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To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
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Enough of acting the infant who has been told so often how he was found under a cabbage that in the end he remembers the exact spot in the garden and the kind of life he led there before joining the family circle.
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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
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The situation is that of him who is helpless, cannot act, in the event cannot paint, since he is obliged to paint. The act is of him who, helpless, unable to act, acts, in the event paints, since he is obliged to paint.
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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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The time is perhaps not altogether too green for the vile suggestion that art has nothing to do with clarity, does not dabble in the clear and does not make clear, and more than the light of day (or night) makes the subsolar, -lunar, and -stellar excrement. Art is the sun, moon, and stars of the mind, the whole mind.
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